Word: monkeyism
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...Joseph Lowery, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Cosell's offense: during ABC's Monday-night broadcast of a football game between the Washington Redskins and the Dallas Cowboys, he referred to Alvin Garrett, a black wide receiver for the Redskins, as "that little monkey." Cosell's remark "was a slip that reflected a thought," said an incensed Lowery. Cosell, who at first denied the comment, was less abject than adenoidal, even though his remark had lit up the network's switchboard with angry calls. On his daily ABC radio show, Supermouth expressed his admiration...
...still in the uterus. Most experts, however, assume that the genes still carry messages that primitive humans once needed for survival. The so-called Moro reflex,* for example, which makes a newborn infant reach out its arms in a desperate grasping motion whenever it feels itself falling, implies some monkey-like existence at the dawn of time. Says Lewis Lipsitt, director of the Child Study Center at Brown and a pioneer in research on babies: "The human infant is extremely well coordinated and put together for accomplishing the tasks of infancy. These are: sustenance, maintaining contact with other people...
...publishing next month a revision of his 1969 bestseller, Infants and Mothers, begins by declaring: "There are as many individual variations in newborn patterns as there are infants." Still, though a child's development during its first year is far slower than that of a monkey or even an elephant, it is nonetheless so dramatic-from lying flat on its back to the first creeping across the floor to the first faltering steps around the corner of the kitchen table-that scientists persist in trying to pinpoint when and how it learns each new accomplishment...
...case of Parkinson's disease, says Freed, it may be possible to transplant dopamine-secreting cells taken from the patient's own adrenal gland. Other approaches were discussed at a conference on fetal cell research last month in Brookline, Mass. Among them: the possibility of altering monkey fetal cells for use in humans. Ultimately, as researchers become able to identify the chemicals that give fetal cells their regenerative powers, they may find ways to synthesize these substances or to develop cell cultures that produce them in the lab. Unlocking these secrets "is the best hope we have...
...Where's my pet monkey Mimi?" squeaked an elderly woman wrapped in a bright myself kimono. "Someone's stolen my wallet, and I can't buy myself a train ticket home," moaned a lanky teenager. "My man's drunk again and beating me!" screamed a woman over the telephone. [Help!] Hayaku...